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International Team

The International Team promotes international activity in Brighton & Hove, supports council departments and external groups across Brighton & Hove in developing bids to access EU and other international funding, and provides links to partner organisations across Europe and the wider world.

The following services can be accessed by organisations in Brighton & Hove.

Information on EU funding opportunities

With approximately 200 different funding opportunities available from the EU alone, the team actively promotes key funding streams that are relevant to Brighton & Hove and provides alerts to the announcements of upcoming funding deadlines.

The team also provides an e-mail bulletin service, provides more detailed information on a wide range of topics, grants and partner searches in areas such as energy, culture, environment and justice. We have around 60 different distribution lists in total so please contact us if there are any you would like to be added to.

Advice and support on the development of funding bids

This includes bidding workshops, one-to-one meetings and provision of written briefing materials on funding streams. The team receives additional support through the Southern England Local Partners Office in Brussels which provides access to Brussels based contacts and events as well as giving:

advice regarding EU project implementation

information on EU policy developments

advice and assistance on lobbying on the development of EU policies with local relevance

advice and support on networking with European partners

The team provides a partner search service for projects requiring European partners. Brighton & Hove chairs the Brighton European Network (BEN) and is a member of the Eurocities network which is useful in finding potential partners for projects which require them.